ESA
Month and year the Endangered Species Act was enacted.
What is December 1973?
Amount of time the Service has to make a “substantial information” finding after receiving a petition to list or delist a species.
What is 90 days?
Name the Atlanta RO Safety Patrol contact.
Who is Chandler?
Over 230 million acres of public land were set aside for conservation purposes under this person's administration.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This once highly endangered reptile has come back robustly and declared “see you later” to its endangered species status.
What is the American Alligator?
This section directs federal agencies to cooperate and use their authority to conserve threatened and endangered species.
What is Section 7?
Species that warrant listing but are precluded by higher priority actions.
What is a Candidate Species?
Name two team members with a dog named Pepper.
Who are Chandler and Jess?
This person is credited with launching the contemporary environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Prior to the introduction of a fungus, this tree once represented almost one quarter of the trees in the Appalachian forests
What is the American chestnut?
This section of the Act defines terms in the ESA.
What is Section 3?
Name what CITES stands for.
What is Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora?
This team member thought the phrase was to “flush ideas" out.
Who is Jean?
This person shared their love of nature through writing and inspired people to protect our country’s wild places, fueling the formation of the National Park Service and the modern conservation movement.
Who is John Muir?
This extreme dietary specialist, found in the state of Florida, feasts almost exclusively on apple snails.
What is the snail kite?
This Act, passed in 1900, is considered the first wildlife law providing Federal protections to endangered species.
What is the Lacey Act?
This policy provides a framework and criteria for evaluating, within a listing determination, conservation efforts that have not yet been implemented or have not yet demonstrated effectiveness.
What is the Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts?
These team members received “I” for their DISC assessments last year.
Who are Nicole and Jon?
This person spearheaded a grassroots effort to protect the Everglades and wrote the iconic book The Everglades: River of Grass.
Who is Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
This species, best known for having delicate bright blue wings, lost an entire population during Hurricane Andrew and is currently being captively reared at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
What is the Miami Blue Butterfly?
Listable entities under the Act.
What are species, subspecies, and distinct populations segments?
This is the result of finding that Critical Habitat is “not determinable.”
What is a one-year extension to complete a final CH designation?
Name Brian’s cat.
Who is Tripper (Sweat Pea, currently residing in Florida, will also count)?
This person organized the coalition that persuaded President Dwight Eisenhower to set aside 8 million acres of wilderness, now known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Who is Margaret “Mardy” Murie?
This critically endangered amphibian is known for its “snoring song” and can be found in gopher tortoise burrows.
What is a dusky gopher frog?